Wednesdays are for Davide Sorrenti––especially and specifically if you’re in New York: lovers of the late-Sorrenti’s oft-imitated-but-never-duplicated work can catch a solo exhibition of the photographers’ raw and saturnine images on June 26th for one month in the East Village. Put on by the Camera Club, which consists of Frank Lebon Tyrone Lebon Edward Quarmby (and even more collaborators), “Our Beautyfull Future” features an assemblage of Davide’s photos from self-portraits, his documentation of close friends to New York City’s youth culture in the mid 90s taken before he passed away. The son of Francesca Sorrenti, Davide was diagnosed with the chronic illness Thalassemia Major and a drug addiction paired with his illness would ultimately lead to his kidneys failing in 1997 at a young age. The extraordinary circumstances that influenced him created a distinctive body of work unique to a point in time in photographic history. The exhibition closely follows the release of Charlie Curran’s documentary on Davide “See Know Evil” which examined his life and work. Charlotte Cotton, curator and photography writer, describes his brief and powerful body of work: “Set within the still raw and menacing pre-Giuliani playground of New York in the early to mid 1990s, this precious cache captures the last passionately youthful moment on the cusp of the city’s commodification and sanitization. They are an elegiac and close testimony to a young man’s life, filled with curiosity and unbounded enthusiasm.”
Our Beautyfull Future opens Wednesday, June 26th, at 431 E 6th Street in the basement and will be on until July 28th.
